Artur Martirosian
Artur Martirosian is a Russian professional poker player whose results span online tournaments, World Series of Poker championships and the biggest live high roller events. Also listed as Artur Martirosyan in some tournament databases, he has won four WSOP bracelets and four titles on the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series.
His career illustrates how rapidly an online specialist can become a leading live tournament player. Martirosian first built his reputation at virtual tables, then won an European Poker Tour Main Event and became a regular at final tables with buy-ins of 25.000 $, 100.000 $ and more. By September 2026, The Hendon Mob recorded 35.780.116 $ in live tournament cashes for him.
Those earnings are gross prizes, not a measure of profit. They nevertheless place him among the most successful Russian players in recorded live poker history.
Birth and Early Life
Artur Martirosian was born on July 5, 1997, in Voronezh, Russia. Public information about his family and childhood is limited. Accounts of his poker career focus primarily on his rise through online tournaments rather than on a detailed personal biography.
His birth year matters to the chronology of his success. Martirosian was still in his early twenties when he began competing against the established names of international high roller poker. His advancement was particularly striking because many of the events involved small fields packed with experienced professionals.
Building a Reputation Online
Martirosian became known to online opponents by the screen name “mararthur1”. His early tournament results came in the environment that has shaped many modern elite players: a constant schedule, fast access to hand histories and regular competition against strong international fields.
Online poker does not guarantee success in live events. Players must adjust to longer days, travel, physical tells and the pressure of making expensive decisions while surrounded by opponents and cameras. Martirosian made that transition successfully. His later results in both no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha showed that he could adapt to different structures and game types.
His online record also continued to matter after his live breakthrough. In 2023 he won a WSOP bracelet in an online heads-up championship, demonstrating that the skills behind his early reputation remained relevant at the highest level.
First Major Live Breakthrough: EPT Sochi
Martirosian’s first European Poker Tour Main Event title came at EPT Sochi in 2021. He won the championship in Russia for 24.633.000 ₽, a result widely reported at about 325.000 $ at the time.
An EPT Main Event victory has a different meaning from a small invitational high roller win. It requires surviving a multi-day field, changing table lineups and the practical challenges of a long tournament. The Sochi result gave Martirosian an important live title before his later run of much larger cashes.
That same period also saw him succeed in expensive international events. He won a 100.000 $ event at the Super High Roller Bowl Europe festival in 2021 for 1.400.000 $. The contrast between the Sochi Main Event and a six-figure buy-in high roller showed his range: he could beat a broad championship field and compete in a concentrated group of specialists.
Entering the International High Roller Circuit
Martirosian became a familiar name at PokerStars EPT festivals, the WSOP and Triton stops. These series differ in field size and format, but success across them requires repeated adjustments. A player may face hundreds of entries in one event and a short field of exceptionally strong players in the next.
At the 2023 PokerStars Players Championship festival in the Bahamas, he finished third in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event for 677.400 $. Later that year, he reached the final stages of several major WSOP events. These results helped establish that his Sochi win had been the beginning of a sustained live career.
The largest single cash on his Hendon Mob profile came at the 2023 WSOP 250.000 $ Super High Roller. Martirosian finished second to Chris Brewer for 3.271.666 $. A runner-up finish in that tournament was worth more than many champions’ entire recorded careers.
First WSOP Bracelet: Online Heads-Up Championship
Martirosian won his first WSOP bracelet in 2023 in the 10.000 $ Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship held online on GGPoker. He collected 424.698 $.
Heads-up poker is a demanding format. With only one opponent, players cannot wait for premium starting hands as often as they might at a full table. They must play a wider range, identify habits quickly and change strategy throughout a match. A championship requires winning a sequence of individual contests rather than simply accumulating chips in one shared field.
His first bracelet linked his online background to one of poker’s most recognizable awards. It also began a WSOP collection that would grow through online, Paradise and Las Vegas events.
Second Bracelet at WSOP Paradise
Later in 2023, Martirosian added a bracelet at WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas. He won the 800 $ Flip & Go event for 110.591 $.
The prize was modest compared with his high roller cashes, but the result was a distinct achievement. A Flip & Go begins with a fast qualification stage and then becomes a conventional tournament. Winning requires surviving both the unusually volatile opening and the later poker competition.
By the end of 2023, Martirosian had a major EPT title, a multi-million-dollar WSOP runner-up finish and two WSOP bracelets. His next prominent run came on the Triton circuit.
Triton Monte Carlo: Two Titles in One Festival
In November 2024, Martirosian won two Triton Poker Super High Roller Series tournaments in Monte Carlo. The first was a 30.000 $ No-Limit Hold’em Bounty Quattro event. His total return, including bounties, was 891.000 $.
He then won the 25.000 $ Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty Quattro event for a combined 525.000 $, including bounty prizes. This second victory made him the only player to win two titles at that Monte Carlo stop.
Bounty tournaments add an extra layer to ordinary prize-pool decisions. Eliminating an opponent can have immediate cash value, so chip stacks and all-in ranges must be assessed differently. Winning in both hold’em and Omaha at the same festival highlighted Martirosian’s flexibility.
The Monte Carlo double also gave him an early advantage in Triton’s season-long Ivan Leow Player of the Year race. He would later make that award a major goal of his 2025 campaign.
Third WSOP Bracelet: 2025 Heads-Up Championship
Martirosian won the 25.000 $ Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship at the 2025 WSOP in Las Vegas. The first-place prize was 500.000 $.
This title was a particularly clear confirmation of his one-on-one skill. His first bracelet had come in an online heads-up event; two years later he won a prestigious live heads-up championship at a substantially higher buy-in.
Repeated success in this format is difficult to dismiss as a single favorable draw. Each match begins afresh against a different opponent, and the winner must adapt several times to reach the title. Martirosian’s two heads-up bracelets became a defining feature of his WSOP record.
Triton Player of the Year and a Third Series Title
Martirosian continued collecting Triton results throughout the 2024–25 season. In September 2025, he won a 25.000 $ Pot-Limit Omaha six-handed event in Jeju, South Korea, for approximately 421.000 $. It was his third Triton Super High Roller Series title.
That win strengthened his position in the Ivan Leow Player of the Year standings. The award rewards performance across the season rather than one isolated victory. Martirosian received the 2024–25 honor at the opening of Triton’s March 2026 Jeju stop.
His Player of the Year campaign reflected both volume and variety. He competed across destinations and formats, with hold’em, Omaha and bounty events contributing to the season’s record. The award recognized sustained success against the circuit’s strongest regulars.
Fourth Triton Title in 2026
Martirosian promptly added another Triton victory at Jeju in March 2026. He won the 50.000 $ Pot-Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty event, defeating a strong final table to secure his fourth title on the Super High Roller Series.
The tournament paid 494.000 $ from the regular prize pool, with bounties lifting his overall return to approximately 1.044.000 $. Because a mystery bounty payout can be reported separately from the conventional tournament prize, totals from different databases and event reports can vary depending on what they include.
This win came soon after he collected the previous season’s Player of the Year trophy. It showed that his 2024–25 performance had carried into the next season, especially in pot-limit Omaha.
Fourth WSOP Bracelet and a Major 2026 Summer
At the 2026 WSOP in Las Vegas, Martirosian won the 25.000 $ High Roller No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event. He earned 1.286.285 $ and his fourth career bracelet.
Six-handed hold’em rewards frequent involvement and a willingness to contest pots without the protection of a full table. His win added another format to a bracelet collection that already included heads-up events and the Flip & Go title.
Later in the same summer, Martirosian finished second to Daniel Negreanu in the 100.000 $ High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha event for 1.477.434 $. The result reinforced his standing in Omaha, even though it did not add a fifth bracelet.
Major Tournament Results
| Year | Event | Result | Recorded prize |
| 2023 | WSOP 250.000 $ Super High Roller NLHE | 2nd | 3.271.666 $ |
| 2025 | Triton Jeju 100.000 $ NLHE | 3rd | 2.644.000 $ |
| 2026 | WSOP 100.000 $ High Roller PLO | 2nd | 1.477.434 $ |
| 2021 | Super High Roller Bowl Europe 100.000 $ NLHE | 1st | 1.400.000 $ |
| 2026 | WSOP 25.000 $ High Roller NLHE Six-Handed | 1st | 1.286.285 $ |
| 2024 | Triton Monte Carlo 30.000 $ NLHE Bounty Quattro | 1st | 891.000 $ including bounties |
| 2023 | PCA Main Event | 3rd | 677.400 $ |
These selected results mix standard tournament prizes with one bounty-inclusive total, clearly identified in the table. They represent gross cashes and do not reveal buy-ins across the full schedule, expenses, swaps, backing or tax liabilities.
Playing Style and Tournament Range
The most distinctive feature of Martirosian’s record is its breadth. He has won online and live heads-up hold’em titles, a conventional six-handed hold’em high roller, no-limit bounty events and multiple pot-limit Omaha tournaments.
Heads-up play requires a wide and changing range of hands. Omaha creates more drawing combinations and often shifts the strength of a hand dramatically from one street to the next. Bounty formats make the value of eliminations part of every difficult decision. Success across all three indicates comfort with changing strategic demands.
His results also show an ability to recover from narrow misses. The 2023 WSOP Super High Roller produced his biggest recorded cash without a title. At the 2026 WSOP, a bracelet win and another seven-figure runner-up finish arrived within the same summer. In tournament poker, a second-place result can be both a frustrating near miss and a major career achievement.
Live Winnings and Net Worth
The Hendon Mob listed 35.780.116 $ in total live earnings and a best live cash of 3.271.666 $ for Martirosian in September 2026. His total is a moving figure: another recorded tournament cash can change it immediately.
It would be incorrect to treat that total as his net worth. Tournament databases add the prizes paid at recorded live events. They do not deduct tournament entries, travel costs, coaching, taxes or money owed under staking and swapping agreements. They also do not provide a complete account of online results.
No independently verified figure for Martirosian’s personal net worth is available from these public tournament records. The reliable conclusion is that he has accumulated tens of millions in gross live cashes and remains active in expensive international events.
Artur Martirosian’s Place in Modern Poker
Martirosian entered poker’s elite during an era in which top competitors can move between online series, the WSOP, EPT festivals and Triton stops within a single season. His trajectory makes sense only when all of those settings are considered together.
The EPT Sochi title established him as a live champion. The two heads-up WSOP bracelets validated his online and live one-on-one ability. His Triton titles and Ivan Leow Player of the Year award demonstrated repeated success against small fields of specialists. The 2026 six-handed bracelet and Omaha runner-up finish added further evidence of his range.
Born in 1997, Martirosian had already collected four WSOP bracelets, four Triton Super High Roller Series titles and more than 35 million $ in recorded live cashes by September 2026. His career is still active, so both his rankings and final legacy remain open.
Statistics checked in September 2026. Recorded live earnings are gross tournament cashes. Bounty totals are specified where included. Some databases spell his surname Martirosyan.